Flounced skirt.



C. LUTZ.

FLOUNCED SKIRT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7. I916.

LQQLI 98o Patented Apr. 3, 1917'.

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FLOUNCED skrnr.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Apr. 3, Milt.

Application filed December '7, 1916. Serial No. 135,625.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL LUJZ, a citizen of Switzerland, and a resident of St. Gallen, Switzerland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flounced Skirts, of which the following is a specification accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to a flounced skirt. The material from which the skirt is made is suitably embroidered, as will hereinafter appear.

Heretofore embroidered flounced skirts have consisted of a piece of material forming the base fabric with the separate fiounces formed of additional pieces'of material secured thereto at intervals. These flounces are shirred or gathered and suitably embroidered, and then secured to the piece of material forming the base fabric of the skirt. The shirring or gathering of' the iiounces gives them a certain fullness and they do not lie flat or smooth upon the base fabric.

The object of my invention is to produce an embroidered flounced material for skirts, and the like, in which the flounces lie smoothly and flat upon the skirt, without shirring or gathering of the flounces themselves, and in accordance with my invention \J the embroidered flounces are not secured to which are secured directly to each other,

The embroidered edges of each strip which overlap the adjacent strips, form the flounces, and the portions of the strips underlying the flounces are shirred or gathcred, so that the fiounces lie smooth and flat. After the series of strips are secured directly to each other along lines at a suilicient distance from the embroidered edges of the overlapping portions, in order to form the flounces, ornamentation is embroidered along the lines at which the strips are joined to each other, in order to further ornament the material and hide the points of joining.

A portion of my improved embroidered flounced material and .a skirt formed of the material, are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of the material;

Fig. 2 is an edge view, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a skirt.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows a portion of the completed material for a skirt, it being understood that such a piece of material will be narrower at thetop than it is at the bottom. For instance, if the material was ten yards wide at the bottom, which is a convenient width, it would be live yards wide at the top. The tapering of the material from the bottom to the top is obtained by the gathering or shirring of the separate pieces forming the material underneath the flounces to be described.

In the drawings, the material and the skirt formed therefrom are shown as formed of four separate embroidered strips or pieces A, B, C and D without any foundation piece or base fabric. These separate strips are provided with embroidered edges E, F, G and H, and are laid one upon the other, so that the strips overlap a sufficient distance to form the flounces J, K and L. Any suitable number of strips or flounces may be provided, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of the invention.

The strips are suitably secured directly to each other, as by basting at the points P, Q and R along the edges of the underlying portions of the strips, and in the process of manufacture, the portions of material underlying' the flounces are shirred or gathered, as shown in dotted lines at O in Fig. 1. This shirring or gathering gives the required fullness to the skirt and makes the completed material narrower at the top than at the bottom, as required, but the flounces themselves are not shirred or gathered, and a different effect is obtained from that provided in the usual method of making a flounced skirt. a

After the separate strips A, B, C and D have been secured to each other, as described, further ornamentation is provided, as by means of embroidering suitable designs along the lines P, Q and R, at which the strips are joined. This embroidery is illustrated at S, T and U, on the outside of the material, so that the lines along which the strips are joined are hidden or obscured, and in front view the materialhas the appearance as if made all in one piece. The preferred method of embroidering the portions S, T and U is to pass the entire'material, after the strips have been joined together, through an embroidery machine, which is an important feature of my improved method of making the embroidered material.

The form and proportions of the strips, the embroidery and the material when finished, may be varied, when desired, without departing from my invention as claimed herein.

I claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent the following:

A flounced skirt comprising a series of separate strips of material having embroidered edges, the embroidered portions overlapping each adjacent strip to form flounces, said adjacent strips being secured Copies of this patent may be obtained for directly to each other and embroidered on the outside along the lines at which they are joined to each other to further ornament the material and hide the points of joining, the portions of the strips underlying the flounces being shirred.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL LUTZ.

Witnesses CARL ADLER, I. RUHN.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, I). G. 

